1. IMPACT FACTOR
VS
OPEN ACCESS
Дебата за Импакт Фактор
Филозофски факултет - УКИМ
25.06.2012

2. THOMSON REUTERS
 Operates in 93 countries
 Quoted on the stock ex-change in NewYork, Toronto, London
on the Nasdaq
 Total of 23,600 employees
 In 2009 grow its business in the main emerging countries
 (Brazil, China and India).
 Invest heavily in digital products and services = 90 % of its
business
 North America = 59 % of total sales,
 Europe = 30 %
 Asia =11 %
 Subscription sales represent 86 % of the group’s operations.

3. IMPACT FACTOR
Introduced in 1960’s by Eugene Garfield:
ISI
citations articles
2010 2008 and 2009
IF=5
Articles published in 08/09
were cited an average of 5 times in 10.
http://www.slideshare.net/brembs/whats-wrong-with-scholarly-publishing-today-ii

4. IMPACT FACTOR
Journal X IF 2010=
All citations from TR indexed journals in 2010 to papers in journal X
Number of citable articles published in journal X in 2008/9
€30,000-130,000/year subscription rates
Covers ~11,500 journals (Scopus covers ~16,500)
http://www.slideshare.net/brembs/whats-wrong-with-scholarly-publishing-today-ii

5. IMPACT FACTOR

6. “IMPACT” FACTOR
The weakening relationship between the Impact Factor & papers’ citations in the digital age
George A. Lozano, Vincent Lariviere, Yves Gingras
http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.4328

7. “IMPACT” FACTOR
The weakening relationship between the Impact Factor & papers’ citations in the digital age
George A. Lozano, Vincent Lariviere, Yves Gingras
http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.4328

8. “IMPACT” FACTOR
The weakening relationship between the Impact Factor & papers’ citations in the digital age
George A. Lozano, Vincent Lariviere, Yves Gingras
http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.4328

9. “IMPACT” FACTOR
The weakening relationship between the Impact Factor & papers’ citations in the digital age
George A. Lozano, Vincent Lariviere, Yves Gingras
http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.4328

10. “IMPACT” FACTOR
The weakening relationship between the Impact Factor & papers’ citations in the digital age
George A. Lozano, Vincent Lariviere, Yves Gingras
http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.4328

11. “IMPACT” FACTOR
“…given that researchers can be evaluated using
a variety of other criteria and bibliometric
indicators (e.g., Averch, 1989; Leydesdorff & Bornmann,
2011; Lozano, 2010; Lundberg, 2007; Põder, 2010),
evaluating researchers by simply looking at the
IFs of the journals in which they publish is both
naive and uninformative”
The weakening relationship between the Impact Factor & papers’ citations in the
digital age
George A. Lozano, Vincent Lariviere, Yves Gingras
http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.4328

12. IMPACT FACTOR
 Not a meaningful measure of scientific
importance of papers, researcher and articles
 Can be negotiated with the publishers (Elsevier)
 Not all discipline cite papers from last 3 years
 Not applicable to all scientific disciplines
 Scientifically and mathematically unsound

13. IMPACT FACTOR

14. THE COST OF KNOWLEDGE
Elsevier + Springer-Kluwer + Wiley-Blackwell=
42% of all published articles*

15. WHO PROFITS FROM KNOWLEDGE?
#Evilseer
Reed Elsevier
supports
SOPA/PIPA and
the Research
Works Act

16. HTTP://THECOSTOFKNOWLEDGE.COM/
http://www.slideshare.net/brembs/whats-wrong-with-scholarly-publishing-today-ii

17. OPEN ACCESS
 By 'open access' to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public
internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print,
search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing,
pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose,
without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable
from gaining access to the internet itself.
 The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for
copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity
of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited."
 Budapest Open Access Initiative February 14, 2002

18. OPEN ACCESS
1. OA journals ("gold OA")
Directory of Open Access Journals
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
BioMed Central
Guides for OA journal publishers
2. OA repositories ("green OA")
Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR)
Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR)
Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)

19. OPEN ACCESS
 Open Access policies
Harvard
MIT
 Open Access Advocacy
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
Electronic Information for Libraries (EIFL)
Open Access Week – worldwide event
Republic of Macedonia participated since 2010

20. VISUALIZING THE OPEN ACCESS FIELD
• What are the prominent articles in the open access
field?
• Which authors are major knowledge producers?
• Which journals are cited the most frequently?
• Which keywords are used most often in the open
access field?
Mapping the Intellectual Structure of the Open Access Field
Through Co-citation Analysis
Guleda Duzyol, Zehra Taskin and Yasar Tonta

21. VISUALIZING THE OPEN ACCESS FIELD
 Web of Science (WoS) database search for the
term “open access” that appeared in the
literature between 2000 and 2010
 281 articles analyzed with
 CiteSpace - freely available Java application for
visualizing and analyzing trends and patterns in
scientific literature

22. VISUALIZING THE OPEN ACCESS FIELD
Mapping the Intellectual Structure of the Open Access Field
Through Co-citation Analysis
Guleda Duzyol, Zehra Taskin and Yasar Tonta

23. VISUALIZING THE OPEN ACCESS FIELD
Mapping the Intellectual Structure of the Open Access Field
Through Co-citation Analysis
Guleda Duzyol, Zehra Taskin and Yasar Tonta

24. VISUALIZING THE OPEN ACCESS FIELD
Mapping the Intellectual Structure of the Open Access Field
Through Co-citation Analysis
Guleda Duzyol, Zehra Taskin and Yasar Tonta

25. VISUALIZING THE OPEN ACCESS FIELD
• Prominent articles in the open access field?
Steven Lawrence (“Free online availability substantially increases a paper’s
impact”, 2001) appears to be the most prominent source as it was cited
the most.
The journal article by Kristin Antelman (“Do open Access articles have a greater
research impact”, 2004) and
the report by Alma Swan and Sheridan Brown (“Open access self-archiving:
An author study”, 2005)
Mapping the Intellectual Structure of the Open Access Field
Through Co-citation Analysis
Guleda Duzyol, Zehra Taskin and Yasar Tonta

26. OPEN ACCESS OPEN ACCESS TO THE
SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL LITERATURE
Bjo ¨ rk B-C, Welling P, Laakso M, Majlender P, Hedlund T, et al. (2010) Open Access to the Scientific Journal Literature:
Situation 2009. PLoS ONE 5(6):
e11273. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011273

27. THE OPEN ACCESS CITATION ADVANTAGE
 The Open Access citation advantage - Studies
and results to date, Alma Swan (2010)

28. THE OPEN ACCESS CITATION ADVANTAGE
The Open Access citation advantage - Studies and
results to date, Alma Swan (2010)

29. IMPACT FACTOR VS OPEN ACCESS
The Open Access citation advantage -
Studies and results to date, Alma Swan
(2010)

30. IMPACT FACTOR VS OPEN ACCESS
The Open Access citation
advantage - Studies and results to
date, Alma Swan (2010)

31. IMPACT FACTOR VS OPEN ACCESS
The Open Access citation
advantage - Studies and results to
date, Alma Swan (2010)

32. IMPACT FACTOR VS OPEN ACCESS
The Open Access citation advantage - Studies and results to
date, Alma Swan (2010)

33. IMPACT FACTOR IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN
REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
ЗАКОН ЗА ВИСОКОТО ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ
„Службен весник на РМ“ бр. 35 од 14.03.2008 година
„Член 87-а
Дел од средствата стекнати од партиципација на трошоците на студирање за бројот
на
студентите чие финансирање се врши во рамките на бројот на студентите чие
образование се финансира од Буџетот на Република Македонија и од
кофинансирање на трошоците за студирање за студентите чие образование не се
финансира од Буџетот на Република Македонија, во висина од 40%, јавниот
универзитет, односно јавната високообразовна установа задолжително ги
употребува за фундаментални и применети истражувања, осовременување на
научно-истражувачката инфраструктура, за оспособување и усовршување на
кадрите за научно-истражувачката работа, како и за инвестиции и инвестициско
одржување.“

34. IMPACT FACTOR IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN
REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
ЗАКОН ЗА ВИСОКОТО ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ
„Службен весник на РМ“ бр. 35 од 14.03.2008 година
Член 136
“…има објавено најмалку два научни или стручни труда во најпрестижни
меѓународни списанија со импакт фактор или пак тие се цитирани во истите.
Член 146-а
На наставник на јавните високообразовни установи кој ќе објави научен или стручен
труд во најпрестижни меѓународни списанија со импакт фактор, му се зголемува
платата во наредните три години за 20% од платата што ја примал.

35. IMPACT FACTOR IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN
REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
ЗАКОН ЗА НАУЧНО-ИСТРАЖУВАЧКАТА ДЕЈНОСТ
„Службен весник на РМ“ бр. 46 од 07.04.2008 година
Член 36
“На истражувач во јавна научна установа кој ќе објави научен или стручен труд во
најпрестижни меѓународни списанија со импакт фактор, му се зголемува платата
во наредните три години за 20% од платата што ја примал.
Член 51
На јавните конкурси за распределба на средствата за финансирање на научно-
истражувачките програми и проекти, при распределбата на средства, најпрвин ќе се
распределат на оние што имаат објавено трудови во списанија со импакт
фактори во последните три години, најмалку два труда во последните три години,
а другите средства ќе се распределуваат на оние кои немаат објавено такви
трудови и проекти.

36. HIGHER EDUCATION IN REPUBLIC OF
MACEDONIA
 Promote scientific Open Access publishing
 Advocate the use of FOSS for Open Access (OJS)
 Advocate for mandatory Scientific Repositories (DSpace)
 Mandate Open Access (Self-Archiving)
 Promote scholarly communication
 Build an information infrastructure at the Faculty/University level
 Build strategies for digital preservation
 Advocate free access to publicly founded research
 Promote and advocate Open Educational Resources
 #OpenScience

37. THANK YOU! QUESTIONS?
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